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Utah Officer Reportedly Killed Family and Self

January 21, 2014

The Boren family (Photo: Facebook)

Everyday marital problems are the only clue investigators have so far in their effort to explain why a well-liked Lindon, Utah, police officer allegedly shot and killed his wife, their two children, his mother-in-law and then himself Thursday night, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Spanish Fork police were asked to drop by the home of 34-year-old Joshua Boren after he failed to show up at the start of his 10 p.m. shift as a police officer for Lindon city and his commander was unable to reach Boren or his wife Kelly, 32, by telephone.

In an upstairs bedroom, officers located Kelly’s mother, 55-year-old Marie King, dead from a gunshot wound. In another bedroom, police found the bodies of the couple and their children, 7-year-old Joshua "Jaden" Boren and 5-year-old Haley Boren.

A former police officer—now an elected official with the Missouri House of Representatives—wants to force any city with a population of 5,000 or fewer inhabitants, with an area of less than two square miles, to disband its police department and contract for law enforcement services with either the county police department or a larger neighboring city.